Prometheus Bound Program

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Artistic Director’s Welcome
Photo: Dario Acosta
Welcome to Prometheus Bound!
I could not be more excited to share this production with
you. When Tony and Grammy Award-winning lyricist and
playwright Steven Sater first approached me with his
translation of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, I immediately fell in love with it. We both heard “music” in the
text, and were thrilled to find the composer of our dreams
in the Grammy Award-winning System of a Down lead
singer Serj Tankian—an artist who has always been deeply
engaged with human rights issues. This new musical casts
Prometheus as the first prisoner of conscience. Our production is a tribute to the courage of those who raise their voices in the face of
tyranny and injustice.
As part of our work on this production, we have nurtured a relationship between
human rights activism and artistic expression. Over the past year, we have been
collaborating closely with Amnesty International, and together we have created
The Prometheus Project. Central to this initiative is the dedication of the performances of this production to eight “Amnesty actions”—prisoners of conscience and individuals at risk from around the world who are currently being
silenced by their governments. We hope that as part of your experience of
Prometheus Bound, you will learn more about these cases and how you can
make a difference.
I have always envisioned this piece as a perfect fit for OBERON, our second stage
of the 21st century that has allowed the A.R.T. to achieve its mission to “expand
the boundaries of theater” by creating whole new kinds of relationships between
performers and audiences. Prometheus Bound exemplifies how we can be
touched by theater, and how can it change us.
Thank you for being a witness tonight.
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AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER
PRESENTS
SCRIPT AND LYRICS BY
MUSIC BY
STEVEN SATER
SERJ TANKIAN
SET DESIGN
RICCARDO
HERNANDEZ
COSTUME
DESIGN
LIGHTING
DESIGN
SOUND DESIGN
EMILY REBHOLZ
KEVIN ADAMS
CLIVE
GOODWIN
VOCAL DESIGN
MUSIC SUPERVISORS
BAND LEADER
ANNMARIE
MILAZZO
DEBRA BARSHA
and LANCE HORNE
VINCENT
PEDULLA
CASTING
STAGE MANAGER
MELCAP CASTING
KATHERINE SHEA*
CHOREOGRAPHY
STEPHEN PETRONIO
DIRECTED BY
DIANE PAULUS
CO-PRODUCED WITH SAMUEL NAPPI, HARMONY PICTURES
First performance on February 25, 2011 at OBERON
PRODUCTION SPONSOR
Sarah Hancock
is being made possible through a generous
grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
(*) member of Actors’ Equity Association
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Cast
Prometheus ......................................................................................GAVIN CREEL*
Force ................................................................................................LEA DELARIA*
Oceanos......................................................................................MICHAEL CUNIO*
Hephaistos/Hermes ............................................................................GABE EBERT*
Daughter of the Ocean ......................................................................JO LAMPERT*
Daughter of the Ocean ............................................................CELINA CARVAJAL*
Daughter of the Ocean ........................................................ASHLEY FLANAGAN*
Io ........................................................................................................UZO ADUBA*
Groupies ............................EMMANUEL AVELLANET, KEVIN LIN, BART MATHER
(*) members of Actors’ Equity Association
UNDERSTUDIES
Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement
for the appearance is made at the time of the performance.
For Prometheus—MICHAEL CUNIO*; for Io—CELINA CARVAJAL; for the Daughters of
the Ocean/Force—JORDY LIEVERS; for Oceanus/Hephaistos/Hermes—STEVEN GOOD
Associate Director—ALLEGRA LIBONATI
Assistant Director—MIA WALKER
Assistant Casting—LAUREN PORT
Assistant Choreographer—GINO GRENEK
Sound Consultant—WILL REID
Dramaturgy—RYAN MCKITTRICK, SARA BOOKIN-WEINER, TYLER MONROE
Production Associate—TAYLOR ADAMIK
Stage Management Intern—KEVIN SCHLAGLE
BAND
Conductor—DEBRA BARSHA
Associate Conductor—LANCE HORNE
Guitars/Sitar—CHARLIE CHRISTOS
Trumpet/Flugelhorn/Piccolo Trumpet/Clarinet/Bass Clarinet/Melodica—TOM DUPREY
Violin/Trombone/Viper/Mandolin—DAVID FINCH
Drums/Percussion/Synth—JEFF MUZEROLLE
Band Leader/Synth/Guitar/Sampler—VINCENT PEDULLA
Bass Guitars—ROBB SIMRING
RUNNING TIME: 80 MINUTES WITH NO INTERMISSION
SPECIAL THANKS
Helen Garrett, Director, Marketing & Special Projects, Amnesty International;
Harvard Chinese Association; Pearl Studios NYC; Physicians for Human Rights,
Local Group 133; Karen Scott, Manager, Music Relations, Amnesty International;
Susannah Sirkin
The A.R.T. wishes to thank its institutional partners,
whose support helps to make the theater’s programs possible:
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Photo: Monique Carboni
Writer and Lyricist’s Note
Twenty-five hundred years after Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound
was first performed, it remains astonishing that the play was ever
staged at all. For, this towering work is perhaps the most searing
indictment of tyranny ever written. And it was written, and staged
before the entire body politic of Athens, at the rose-fingered dawn
of Western democracy.
In a very real way, Prometheus’ cry is the cry of conscience. The
cry of a prisoner who will not yield. At heart, this is a play about resistance. About the power of a tortured individual to stand alone
against evil. And, the action of Aeschylus’ original drama is sublime. It embodies the truth of inaction—the Gandhian power of
standing alone. Of saying no. Of defeating one’s enemy by mastering one’s own soul—and never acknowledging the legitimacy of
anyone to rule over it.
From our earliest conversations about my translation from the Ancient Greek, Diane
Paulus and I have been determined to honor the radical nature of this play, and perhaps—
with our mad, maverick partner Serj Tankian—to suggest that the creation of a piece of
theater can be, itself, a radical act.
Witnessing the atrocities of the Second World War, the Ancient Greek scholar and political activist Simone Weil wrote: “Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this
world but people capable of giving them attention.” For fifty years, Amnesty International
has helped answer that need, teaching our world how to pay attention to those unjustly
taken, tortured, and detained.
On behalf of this production, Amnesty has identified eight silenced individuals from
around the world; week by week, our performances are dedicated to them. It will forever be
a part of the honor of this ancient play that it has now been staged, here at the A.R.T., for
the sake of Jafar Panahi, Dhondup Wangchen, David Kato, Tran Quoc Hien, Doan Van Dien,
Doan Huy Chuong, Norma Cruz, Reggie Clemons and Nasrin Sotoudeh. These prisoners of
conscience are themselves models of Prometheus’ defiance and of his greatness.
—Steven Sater
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Composer’s Note
When I first read Steven Sater’s translation of Prometheus
Bound I was immediately hit with a lot of profundities. My whole
life I’ve been not only a musician but also an activist. Injustice is
definitely a thorn in my side—as well as everyone else’s—and the
Prometheus story really resonated with me in terms of injustice
and tyranny, and also the creation of civilization. The ending of
civilization is something I’ve been dealing with a lot, especially on
my last album. So I was interested in being a part of something that
deals with its beginning, and with the tools that were given to humans to create.
Just like we shouldn’t put borders on our thoughts, I don’t think
we should put borders on music. I don’t think we should say music
is designed for one purpose or another. So to say that it is only designed for entertainment would be shortcutting music, as would saying that music is designed solely for messages. That would be not giving music the wide span that it deserves.
Music is used for many, many purposes, and I think it’s an intuitive medium that comes
from the universe, connects us and co-inspires us—the presenter as well as the listener.
Music has the ability to move people and change hearts, and the heart has the power to
change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.
My goal was to bring a really diverse, different type of sound to this piece. I’ve been reading about the mythological power of music and its relationship to the origins of man, and
how the original word was music. How we are music—we’re all made from vibrations and
our physical interconnections are also musical. They carry harmony of some sort, sometimes dissonant, sometimes perfectly harmonic. So it makes sense to me for music to be involved in the Prometheus story, because I see this as a myth about the creation of
civilization, the rise of man as a neo-god.
—Serj Tankian
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The Prometheus Project
A Note from Amnesty International
Written nearly 2500 years ago, Prometheus Bound could be an allegory based on today’s
headlines. Are we in ancient Greece? Or is Prometheus a defiant dissident in modern-day
North Africa? Or China? Perhaps Iran or Belarus?
The play is a brooding commentary on the arbitrary rule of a nervous tyrant. Just like
Zeus, dictators exert their will, anxious to quash any whisper of dissent. Dissidents behave
as if they were living in a free society. The Soviet physicist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Andrei Sakharov once declared that “A man may hope for nothing, but nonetheless must
speak because he cannot remain silent.” And in Burma, the opposition figure Aung San Suu
Kyi, who is also a Nobel Laureate and was just released this November after spending 15 of
the past 20 years in confinement, made clear that “It is not power that corrupts but fear.
Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts
those who are subject to it.”
The example of Prometheus underscores this contemporary lesson. There is a dimension
of willed martyrdom in Prometheus, who appears to have foreseen his inevitable punishment. Is that so different from what it can mean to be an activist today in a repressive society? The human rights movement does not attract ordinary, cautious citizens. Given its
obvious risks, to defy a regime or a zealous god requires a willingness to suffer the consequences. What normal citizen would willingly face the risk of imprisonment or torture? But
there are always such people; they emerge like grass through the cracks in concrete. We saw
them in the American South in the struggle to end Jim Crow. In Eastern Europe in the late
1980s. In South Africa under apartheid. In Tunisia and Egypt today.
We congratulate the American Repertory Theater along with Serj Tankian and Steven
Sater for this thrilling new production of Prometheus Bound. We are honored for the invitation to join them and encourage audiences to take the lesson of Prometheus to heart.
Joshua Rubenstein
Northeast Regional Director
Amnesty International USA
The Prometheus Project Team:
Harvard:
David Ruffin
Julie Rogers
Laura Hogikyan
Amnesty International:
Cynthia Gabriel Walsh
A.R.T:
Allegra Libonati
Jared Fine
Brendan Shea
Sara Bookin-Weiner
Tyler Monroe
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The Prometheus Project
About the Prometheus Project
The Prometheus Project is a partnership between the American Repertory Theater,
Amnesty International and local Boston activists to bring the theater arts to the service of
human rights work.
By singing the story of Prometheus, the God who defied the tyrant Zeus by giving the
human race both fire and art, this production hopes to give a voice to those currently being
silenced or endangered by modern-day oppressors. Through our hero’s struggles, we experience the power of the individual to take action in the service of another human being
The A.R.T. is therefore dedicating its run of Prometheus Bound to eight Amnesty Appeals
calling to free prisoners of conscience and aid individuals at risk all over the world. After
each performance, the audience will be given the tools to become activists: postcards will be
collected, petitions signed and opportunities provided to engage with Amnesty and human
rights advocates. The text, music and movement of this production fuse to create a work
that inspires—and aspires to—social activism through artistic collaboration.
Please contact humanrights@amrep.org with any questions.
The 8 Amnesty Appeals
February 25–March 4
COUNTRY: Iran
NAME: Jafar Panahi
AI CONCERN: Prisoner of
conscience/Unfair trial
OCCUPATION: Filmmaker
BACKGROUND: Has been sentenced to six
years in prison plus a twenty-year ban on all his
artistic activities, including filmmaking, writing
scripts, traveling abroad and speaking with
media. Convicted of propaganda against the
state for having exercised his right to peaceful
freedom of expression through his filmmaking
and political activism, he was specifically accused of making an anti-government film without permission and inciting opposition protests
after the disputed 2009 presidential election.
March 7–9
COUNTRY:
Democratic Republic
of Congo
NAME: Survivors of
Sexual Violence
AI CONCERN: Rape as a Weapon
BACKGROUND: The Democratic Republic of
the Congo (DRC) has been called the rape capital of the world. Every year, thousands of
rapes are reported. Many more rapes go unre14
ported because of the personal risk and shame
associated with being attacked. The frequency
of rape as a weapon of war by all sides in the
Congo, and the almost total impunity for perpetrators of these atrocious crimes, have led to
an increase in the incidence of rape in all corners of the country. The Congolese government, in collaboration with the UN, must
develop a long-term, comprehensive action
plan to end impunity for crimes committed in
the country. The perpetual cycle of violence
against women in the DRC must end.
March 10–16
COUNTRY: China
NAME: Dhondup Wangchen
Conscience, Torture & Other
Ill-Treatment, Human Rights Defenders
OCCUPATION: Filmmaker
DATE OF SENTENCE: December 28, 2009
BACKGROUND: Detained in Qinghai Province
and held in various detention centers from
March 2008 to December 2009 for his involvement in making a film that expresses Tibetan attitudes toward the Beijing Olympics and the
Dalai Lama. He was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for subversion of state power on
December 28, 2009 after a secret trial by Xining
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City Intermediate Court. He has reportedly
been tortured and is suffering from Hepatitis B,
for which he has not been treated, and he has
been denied access to a lawyer and family visits.
March 17–18
COUNTRY: Uganda
NAME: David Kato (deceased)
AI CONCERN: Human Rights
Violations Against LGBT persons/Investigation into his murder
OCCUPATION: Kato was a LGBT Human
Rights Activist
BACKGROUND: Amnesty International demands that Uganda conduct a credible investigation into the appalling attack that killed
David Kato, a gay activist who successfully
sued a national newspaper that pictured him
in an article among “100 Top Ugandan
Homos.” David Kato, the advocacy officer for
the organization Sexual Minorities Uganda,
died on his way to the hospital on Wednesday,
January 26, 2011 after he was hit on the head
by an unknown attacker at his home in the
Mukono district, outside Kampala.
March 21–23
COUNTRY: Vietnam
NAME: Tran Quoc Hien
AI CONCERN: Prisoners of
Conscience Freedom of
Association; Unfair trial,
repressive legislation
OCCUPATION: Director of Legal
Consultancy in Ho Chi Minh City; Legal
Adviser; spokesperson for the United
Workers-Farmers Organization (UWFO)
DATE OF SENTENCE: May 15, 2007
BACKGROUND: As the Director of the Legal
Consultancy in Ho Chi Minh City, Tran Quoc
Hien provided advice to farmers whose land
had been confiscated by the authorities. On
May 4, 2007 he was arrested and it was reported
in the official media that he would be brought
to trial by Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court,
charged under Articles 88 (conducting propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam)
and 89 (disrupting security) of the penal code.
It is not known where he is currently detained.
He was sentenced to five years imprisonment.
COUNTRY: Vietnam
NAME: Doan Van Dien
Conscience
OCCUPATION: Trade Unionist
BACKGROUND: Doan Van Dien, leading
member of the United Workers-Farmers
Organization, was arrested on November 14,
2007 in Dong Nai province before the APEC
meeting began. At his trial on December 10,
2007 (International Human Rights Day), he
was accused of collecting complaints about
land use and sending them overseas, which
were then used on Web sites. He was found
guilty of “abusing democracy and freedom
rights to infringe on the interests of the state,
and legitimate rights and interests of organizations and citizens.”
COUNTRY: Vietnam
NAME: Doan Huy Chuong
Conscience
OCCUPATION: Trade Unionist
BACKGROUND: A founding member of the
United Workers-Farmers Organization, Doan
Huy Chuong was imprisoned for 18 months
in 2006 for establishing an organization to
promote the rights of workers and farmers.
During this time, he was placed in solitary
confinement for 48 days and was subjected to
physical and psychological torture.
March 24–25
COUNTRY: Guatemala
NAME: Norma Cruz
Conscience Freedom of
Association; Unfair trial, repressive legislation
OCCUPATION: Leader of Fundacion
Sobrevivientes
BACKGROUND:
Leads
Fundacion
Sobrevivientes (Survivors Foundation), a
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women’s rights organization based in
Guatemala City. Since 2009, she has received
numerous death threats for her work documenting cases of violence against women in
Guatemala and helping women fight for justice. However, the Public Prosecutor’s Office
has not reported any progress in the investigation into the remaining death threats against
Norma Cruz, her relatives or members of the
Fundacion Sobrevivientes. Even though the
Guatemalan authorities have provided Norma
Cruz, her family and her office with police
protection the threats continue. To date, nobody has yet been held to account.
March 28–29
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
NAME: Reggie Clemons
AI CONCERN: Abolish the
Death Penalty
DATE OF SENTENCE: 1991
BACKGROUND: A death row prisoner who
was convicted for his alleged role as an accomplice in a 1991 murder of two women,
Julie and Robin Kerry, in St. Louis. Clemons
has consistently maintained his innocence,
and there is no physical evidence against him;
his case illustrates the flaws inherent in the
U.S. death penalty system. More than 1,200
people have been executed in the United
States since 1977, their lives extinguished by a
system corrupted by economic and racial bias
and tainted human error.
March 30–April 2
COUNTRY: Iran
NAME: Nasrin Sotoudeh
conscience/Unfair trial
OCCUPATION: Human rights defender and
lawyer
DATE OF SENTENCE: October 1, 2010
BACKGROUND: The persecution of Nasrin
Sotoudeh is just one example of the Iranian
government’s campaign against human rights
attorneys who struggle to carry out their work
in a deeply flawed legal system. Nasrin
Sotoudeh was threatened for her efforts to represent Arash Ramanipour, a juvenile offender
executed in January 2010. She was detained
after her house and office were searched on 28
August and she was summoned to appear in
court. Her assets have also been frozen.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO SUPPORT THESE CASES
• Sign an action postcard (to be distributed at end of performance)
• Text ACTION to 90999 to opt in to our mobile action alert list
• Join a local group
• Form a group at your high school or college
• Text AMNESTY to 90999 to donate $10
Amnesty International is a movement of people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights. Our purpose is to protect people
wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied. We investigate and
expose abuses, educate and mobilize the public, and help transform societies
to create a safer, more just world.
Amnesty International is funded by people like you. We do not accept any
funding from governments.
For more information contact Amnesty International’s Northeast Regional
Office, 58 Day Street, Somerville, MA 02144
Telephone: 617-623-0202 email: cgabriel@aiusa.org
Please visit www.amnestyusa.org
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Cast
UZO ADUBA
Io
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway:
Coram Boy. New York: The
Seven, New York Theater
Workshop; Love According
to Luc, Greenwich St.
Theatre; Romeo & Juliet,
Pulse Ensemble; Passin’, Afrikan Women’s Rep.
Regional theater: Venice, Center Theater
Group, Kansas City Rep; Dessa Rose, New
Repertory Theatre; Eclipsed, Woolly Mammoth
Theatre; A Civil War Christmas, The
Huntington Theatre; Godspell, Paper Mill
Playhouse and MUNY; The Spirit in Translations
of Xhosa, Olney Theatre; Sheila’s Day,
Crossroads Theatre Company; The Seven, La
Jolla Playhouse; Crowns, Denver Center;
Abyssinia, Goodspeed. Film: Notes, Over There,
WWJD. She has been a featured vocalist at
The White House and at Notre Dame
Cathedral in Paris.
CELINA CARVAJAL
Daughter of the Ocean,
u/s Io
Tarzan, Dracula, 42nd
Street, Cats. Off-Broadway:
Starring roles in The Toxic
Avenger, Radiant Baby,
Bedbugs!!!, NYMF. Film: Sex And The City, The
Big Gay Musical, The Graduates. Television: “All
My Children,” “Legally Blonde, The Search for
Elle Woods” (MTV). Carvajal started her career
singing for Pope John Paul II at Candlestick
Stadium for more than 50,000 people at the
tender age of 7. Check out her rock band
TheDeafening.com, her website
CelinaCarvajal.com and her podcast on
iTunes called The Broken Leg.
GAVIN CREEL
Prometheus
Hair (Tony nomination);
La Cage Aux Folles;
Thoroughly Modern Millie
(Tony nomination).
London: Hair, Mary
Poppins. Regional: Bounce, The Goodman
Theatre/Kennedy Center. Television: “Eloise at
the Plaza,” “Eloise at Christmastime.” Original
recordings: Goodtimenation, Quiet (both on
iTunes). Passion: Marriage Equality.
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MICHAEL CUNIO
Oceanos, u/s
Prometheus
A.R.T.: Debut. New York:
Hairspray (Corny Collins),
The Rockae (Dionysus).
Chicago: Jersey Boys
(Tommy DeVito). Film:
The Fluffer, Cradle 2 the Grave, Motocrossed.
Television: “The West Wing,” “The Oprah
Winfrey Show.” Cunio
is the co-founder and lead singer of the
alternative rock band Reckless Place. Their
debut album innocence is no excuse… is
currently available on iTunes and their
sophomore effort Six Shooter will be available
this spring. For more information visit
www.RecklessPlace.com.
LEA DELARIA
Force
On the Town (Obie,
Theatre World and Drama
Desk nominee), The Rocky
Horror Show. OffBroadway/Regional: On
the Town, Midsummer Nights Dream, McCarter
Theater; As You Like It, Williamstown Theater
Festival; Happy Days (Drama League Honoree),
Little Fish, Cinderella, NY City Opera; The Most
Fabulous Story Ever Told, Encores! and Reprise!,
Li’l Abner, Boys from Syracuse (Ovation nominee). National tour: Chicago. Film: Edge of
Seventeen, The First Wives Club, Sgt. Bilko,
Rescuing Desire, Mercury in Retrograde, Fat Rose
& Squeaky, Ass Backwards. Television: “One Life
To Live,” “The Oblongs,” “Law & Order: SVU,”
“Friends,” “Further Tales of the City,”
“Matlock,” “Saved By The Bell: The New
Class.” Featured Vocalist for the 50th anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival; four CDs on
the Warner Jazz label; Lea’s Book of Rules is in
its third printing with Dell Publishing.
www.delariadammit.com.
GABE EBERT
Hephaistos/Hermes
Noel Coward’s Brief
Encounter (Stanley); John
Logan’s Red (Ken understudy). Off-Broadway:
Alena Smith’s The
cast
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Sacrifices (Justin). Training: The Juilliard
School (Group 38.)
ASHLEY
FLANAGAN
Daughter of the Ocean
A.R.T.: Debut. Regional:
The Sound of Music, A
Night on Broadway
Cabaret, John W.
Engeman Theater;
Footloose (Rusty), Stephen Foster. BFA in
Musical Theater, Elon University. Thanks to
Mom, Dad, Sean, Jake and all of my wonderful
friends for their constant love and support!
TODDLER
PRIMARY
ELEMENTARY
MIDDLE SCHOOL
JO LAMPERT
Daughter of the Ocean
A.R.T.: Debut. New York:
The Last Goodbye
(Mercutio), Joe’s Pub, The
Wild Project; Dance,
Dance Revolution, dir. Alex
Timbers, Ohio Theatre;
The Daughters (Aphrodite), Joe’s Pub; Hamlet
(Composer, Player), Galapagos Art Space.
Regional: The Last Goodbye, Williamstown
Theater Festival; Raindogs, dir. Andrew
MacBean, Bay Street Theater; The Daughters,
dir. Mark Brokaw, Yale Institue of Music
Theater. Film: “Declare Independence,” dir.
Michel Gondry (Bjork music video). BA,
NYU Tisch School of the Arts (Playwrights
Horizons Theater School/Experimental
Theater Workshop).
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Creative Team
STEVEN SATER
DIANE PAULUS
Writer and Lyricist
Author and lyricist of Spring Awakening, winner of eight Tony Awards on Broadway and
produced in 25 countries around the world.
He has also collaborated with Duncan Sheik
on Umbrage (HERE); Nero (Magic Theatre, New
York Stage and Film); The Nightingale (La Jolla
Playhouse and American Conservatory
Theater); and the critically acclaimed album
Phantom Moon (Nonesuch). Other plays include the long-running Carbondale Dreams;
Perfect For You, Doll (Rosenthal Prize); Umbrage
(Steppenwolf New Play Prize); A Footnote to the
Iliad (New York Stage and Film); Asylum
(Naked Angels); and a reconceived musical
version of Shakespeare’s Tempest (Lyric
Hammersmith). He is currently at work with
Burt Bacharach on a new musical as well.
Additionally, Sater works as a pop/rock lyricist
and screenwriter (the forthcoming Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang remake for Sony Pictures).
Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score, the
Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle awards
for Best Lyrics, the 2008 Grammy Award for
Best Musical Show Album and the 2010
Olivier Award for Best New Musical for
Spring Awakening.
Director
Artistic Director of the A.R.T. Her A.R.T. credits
include Johnny Baseball, Best of Both Worlds,
The Donkey Show (also six years Off-Broadway,
tours to London, Edinburgh, Madrid, Evian,
France). Other theater includes HAIR (Gielgud
Theater, London, Al Hirschfield Theater, Tony
Award, Best Revival for of a Musical, Tony Award
nomination, Best Direction of a Musical); Lost
Highway (Young Vic/English National Opera);
Kiss Me, Kate (Glimmerglass Opera); Another
Country (Columbia Stages); Turandot: Rumble for
the Ring (Bay Street Theater); Swimming with
Watermelons (Vineyard Theater and MusicTheatre Group); Eli’s Comin,’ (Obie Award),
Brutal Imagination (Vineyard Theater); The
Golden Mickeys (Disney Creative Entertainment);
The Karaoke Show (Jordan Roth Productions);
Running Man (Pulitzer Prize finalist, MusicTheatre Group). Opera: The Magic Flute
(Canadian Opera Company), Il mondo della luna
(Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Natural
History, Gotham Chamber Opera), Don Giovanni,
Le nozze di Figaro, Turn Of The Screw, Cosi fan tutte,
Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, L’incoronazione di
Poppea and Orfeo (Chicago Opera Theater).
Upcoming at the A.R.T.: Death and the Powers:
The Robots’ Opera (premiered in Monaco in
September 2010) and Porgy and Bess. Paulus was
named one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in
Boston by Boston magazine this year.
SERJ TANKIAN
Composer
A singer, poet, songwriter, activist and composer, Tankian is an Armenian immigrant
born in Lebanon and re-rooted in Los Angeles.
He is the lead singer and songwriter of the
Grammy Award-winning rock band System of
a Down. Tankian has released two critically acclaimed solo albums, Imperfect Harmonies and
Elect the Dead, both produced by Tankian himself at his home studio in Los Angeles. He also
formed a record label, Serjical Strike Records
(established in 2001) that has released albums
by eight artists, including Fair To Midland,
Buckethead and Death By Stereo. With a mission of spreading diversity and understanding
through music, poetry and activism, Tankian,
together with fellow musician Tom Morello
(Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave), cofounded the non-profit organization Axis Of
Justice in 2002. Axis strives to bring together
musicians, fans of music and grassroots political organizations to fight for social justice. He
has also acted as co-host of the Axis Of Justice
Radio Network, which can be heard via Sirius
Satellite Radio and KPFK in Los Angeles.
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STEPHEN PETRONIO
Choreographer
Artistic Director/Choreographer of the Stephen
Petronio Company. He was born in Newark,
New Jersey, and received a BA from Hampshire
College in Amherst, Mass., where he began
dancing in 1974. Initially inspired by the dancing of Rudolf Nureyev and Steve Paxton,
Petronio was the first male dancer of the Trisha
Brown Company (1979 to 1986). He founded
Stephen Petronio Company in 1984 and has
gone on to build a unique and powerful language of movement in collaboration with some
of the finest contemporary innovators in the
fields of music, visual arts and fashion including
Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Rufus Wainwright,
Son Lux, Nico Muhly, Cindy Sherman, Donald
Baechler, Benjamin Cho, Imitation of Christ,
Tony Cohen and Rachel Roy. Petronio recently
completed two new works in collaboration with
composer Ryan Lott (aka SON LUX)—Tragic Love
for Ballet-de-Lorraine and By Singing Light, for
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the National Dance Company of Wales. He is
currently working on a memoir with the working title Notes from A Life in Motion.
RICCARDO HERNANDEZ
Set Designer
Close to 20 A.R.T. credits including Alice vs.
Wonderland, Best of Both Worlds, The Seagull,
Julius Caesar, Britannicus. On Broadway he designed Caroline, or Change; Topdog/Underdog (also
Royal Court, London); Elaine Stritch at Liberty (also
West End’s Old Vic, London and national tour);
Parade (Tony and Drama Desk nominations); Bells
Are Ringing; Noise/Funk (also national tours and
Japan); The Tempest. Other New York credits include
over a dozen productions at New York Shakespeare
Festival/Public Theater; as well as Santa Fe Opera,
Lincoln Center, Second Stage, New York Theater
Workshop, MTC, MCC, Playwrights Horizons,
Cherry Lane, BAM; and numerous regional theaters
and opera houses, including Il Postino for Los
Angeles Opera and the Kennedy Center this season.
EMILY REBHOLZ
Costume Designer
Broadway credits include Bloody, Bloody Andrew
Jackson (also at The Public Theater and Center
Theater Group). Other New York designs include When I Come To Die; On The Levee; Brokeology, Clay (Lincoln Center); Honey Brown Eyes
(The Working Theater); Bottom of the World
(Atlantic Theater); Bachelorette (Second Stage
Uptown); This Wide Night (Naked Angels);
Killers and Other Family (Rattlestick Theatre); The
Language of Trees (Roundabout Theatre); Sax and
Dixon, Jollyship the Whizbang, Boom (Ars Nova).
Select Regional: Dinner With Friends (Westport
Country Playhouse); Becky Shaw (The Wilma
Theatre); Six Degrees of Separation (The Old
Globe); Murderers, Doubt, Expecting Isabel (Asolo
Repertory Theatre); Caroline in Jersey, Beyond
Therapy (Williamstown Theatre Festival).
KEVIN ADAMS
Lighting Designer
Broadway: American Idiot (2010 Tony Award for
Lighting), Spring Awakening (2007 Tony Award
for Lighting), The 39 Steps (2008 Tony Award for
Lighting), Hair (2009 Tony nomination for
Lighting), Next to Normal (2009 Tony nomination
for Lighting), Passing Strange, Everyday Rapture,
Take Me Out, Hedda Gabler, solo shows for John
Leguizamo, Eve Ensler and Kevin Bacon. OffBroadway includes the original production of
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, premieres by Edward
Albee, Eric Bogosian, Christopher Durang, Kander
and Ebb, Rinde Eckert, Richard Greenberg, Tony
Kushner, Terrence McNally, Charles Mee Jr., Neil
Simon, Anna Deveare Smith and Paula Vogel. 2002
Obie for Sustained Excellence. Other: Steppenwolf
Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, Donmar
Warehouse, NY City Opera, Kennedy Center,
HBO’s “Mildred Pierce,” Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love
Songs, concerts by Audra McDonald, Patti Lupone
and Sandra Bernhard. www.ambermylar.com.
CLIVE GOODWIN
Sound Designer
A.R.T.: The Blue Flower, Cabaret, Alice vs.
Wonderland, Paradise Lost. Sound Design credits: London: BBC: “Dancing With The Stars,”
“Later with Jools Holland,” “The Sound of
Musicals,” “Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.”
ITV: “Parkinson.” Music: Radiohead, Jamiroquai,
Paolo Nutini, Orbital, Sparks, The Waterboys,
Glastonbury Festival, London Philharmonic
Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC
Symphony Orchestra, Royal College of Music.
Woodhouse Players: The Dresser, Wyrd Sisters,
Dracula—The Vampire Strikes Back. Work on numerous shows including work at: Brooklyn Academy
of Music, Hollywood Bowl, Madison Square
Garden, Royal Festival Hall, Avignon Festival.
ANNMARIE MILAZZO
Vocal Designer
Vocal designer: Spring Awakening, the Broadway
musical at the Eugene O’Neil Theater; Next To
Normal, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway
musical at The Booth Theater; Bright Lights Big
City Off Broadway at The New York Theater
Workshop; The Marc Pease Experience, the
Paramount Feature film with Ben Stiller; Carmen
The Musical, at the La Jolla Playhouse; Reluctant
Pilgrim, the music of Stephen Schwartz.
Composer/lyricist: Pretty Dead Girl, Sundance
Film Festival, book by David Henry Hwang; Sea
Change, book by Karen Hartman; lyricist for
Carmen The Musical at La Jolla Playhouse; lyricist
for Le Reve at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas.
Current projects: Dangerous Beauty at the
Pasadena Playhouse; “Didi Lightful,” Disney TV,
music by David Shire; Carrie, based on the movie
by Steven King, music by Dean Pitchford and
Michael Gore. AnnMarie Milazzo is a Grammynominated singer of The East Village Opera
Company on Universal Records.
DEBRA BARSHA
Music Supervisor/Conductor
A.R.T.: Cabaret (Music Director). Winner of the
Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Award for the
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score to Radiant Baby (the life of graffiti artist
Keith Haring), produced at the Public Theater,
directed by George C. Wolfe. Radiant Baby received three Lucille Lortel nominations including Outstanding Musical. Composer credits
include: Blackout (Amas), Sophie (JRT), Songs
From an Unmade Bed (NYTW) and her onewoman shows Go To Your Womb and A Womb
with a View. Children’s musicals: Cloudy With a
Chance of Meatballs and The Emperor’s New
Condo. Songs recorded/performed by: George
Clinton, Jackie Mason, Marty Balin, Rebecca
Luker, Michael Winther and Bootsy Collins.
Original CDs: Women in Windows and Barsha
Raw! Live at Ars Nova. Barsha played keyboards
and sang on Thomas Dolby’s Flat Earth Tour and
performed roles in the original off-Broadway
companies of both Tony ’N’ Tina’s Wedding and
Charles Busch’s Swingtime Canteen (Music
Director for both). She created Debra and Mary’s
Night on Town, a live talk/music show with Mary
Cleere Haran, with guests Tim Gunn, Terry
Jones, Michael Feinstein and Rupert Holmes.
Barsha is the Music Supervisor for the upcoming
Peter Gabriel musical US and currently plays
keyboard and is the Assistant Conductor of
Broadway’s Jersey Boys.
LANCE HORNE
Music Supervisor/Associate Conductor
A.R.T.: Cabaret (Music Director). MD for Alan
Cumming, Justin Bond, Meow Meow, Taylor
Mac, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s upcoming Alice By Heart. Vocal arrangements for Little
Women on Broadway, performances with Seoul
Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, Dwight
Yoakam, Edinburgh and Sydney Festivals, Pina
Bausch’s Tanzfestival and with Amanda Palmer
at Sydney Opera House, New Year’s Eve with
Boston Pops, The Dresden Dolls Tour and
opening for Death Cab for Cutie.
Composer/lyricist for upcoming musicals The
$trip, Amandine and The Center, VEGAS! The
Show currently at Planet Hollywood Casino in
Vegas in addition to film scores, classical and
pop/rock works seen at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall,
Sydney Opera House, American Opera Projects,
Toronto’s Luminato Festival and the Vaudeville
on the West End. A recipient of an Emmy for
Daytime Best Original Song, he holds a
Bachelor’s and Master’s in Music Composition
from the Juilliard School where he studied with
Milton Babbitt and Robert Beaser, currently
completing his Doctorate at CUNY Graduate
Center with David Del Tredici. Former faculty
of Juilliard School Precollege, EAMA Paris and
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visiting professor at Hyperlsland Stockholm
and the Interlochen Arts Academy, Mr. Horne
co-produced Mr. Cumming’s debut record concurrent with engagements at the Sydney Opera
House, Lincoln Center Songbook Series and the
West End. Mr. Horne returns to the Lincoln
Center Songbook Series in January concurrent
with the premiere of his album on Yellow
Sound/Warner Brothers. www.lancehorne.com.
MELCAP CASTING/
DAVID CAPARELLIOTIS
Casting
Current and recent Broadway: Bengal Tiger at
the Baghdad Zoo, The House of Blue Leaves, Good
People, Fences, Lend Me A Tenor. Also: Second
Stage, MTC, Atlantic, Williamstown Theatre
Festival (three seasons), ARS NOVA, The
Goodman, Arena, Ford’s, City Theatre,
Hartford Stage and ACT. Film/television:
“Brotherhood,” “Gossip Girl” (two seasons),
“Rubicon,” Love & Other Drugs (NY casting),
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (upcoming).
VINCENT PEDULLA
Band Leader/Synth/Guitar/Sampler
A graduate of Berklee College of Music’s Film
Scoring program, Vincent Pedulla is a musician, composer and orchestrator whose recent
credits include music for clients: Syfy, Bravo,
Lion’s Gate, Samsung, Absolut, U.S. Cellular
and Mass Mutual. Pedulla provided additional
orchestrations for Serj Tankian’s Imperfect
Harmonies album, and was assistant mix engineer for Tankian’s Elect The Dead Symphony. As
studio manager at Junkie XL’s Computer Hell,
he worked on countless high level remix, film
and video game composition projects for
Electronic Arts, Summit Entertainment and
others. He has also composed and coordinated
original music for over 40 DVD releases, including series starring Bob Harper, Billy
Blanks, Jane Fonda, George St. Pierre and
Brooklyn Decker.
CHARLIE CHRISTOS
Guitars/Sitar
Charlie Christos is a guitarist, singer and
songwriter. He has released two solo albums,
Overawake and Widow’s Gun. The title track from
the latter reached into the top 200 on the
National AMA radio charts in 2010. Alongside
his work with the American Repertory Theater,
Christos can be seen touring and performing
his original work. For more info, visit
www.charliechristos.com.
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TOM DUPREY
Trumpet/Flugelhorn/Piccolo Trumpet/
Clarinet/Bass Clarinet/Melodica
Tom Duprey has been actively playing trumpet in
the Boston area since 1986 when he moved here
to receive his Master’s degree in Jazz
Studies/Composition at the New England
Conservatory of Music. Since then he has performed in many regional, college and downtown
musical theater productions. He has also performed for many star acts such as Dionne
Warwick, Johnny Mathis, Robert Goulet, Tommy
Tune and various other artists. He has played
trumpet for the past eight years with the Boston
Gay Man’s Chorus. These performances include
world premieres at Symphony Hall and the Cutler
Majestic Theatre, as well as performances at
Jordan Hall and the Boston Pavillion. He can also
be heard on two of the group’s CDs. Duprey’s latest musical project is playing cornet with
TickleJuice, featuring the music of James
Merenda. The group is an exploration of improvisation utilizing Merenda’s compositions as the
material of inspiration. This is Duprey’s second
A.R.T./OBERON production, having just finished
playing trumpet and accordion for Cabaret this
past fall. He’s totally pumped to play Prometheus
Bound with its excitement, strong and timeless
message and the challenge of playing no less than
six instruments! It has been an absolute pleasure
to work with such wonderfully talented individuals to put this show together from the ground up.
DAVID FINCH
Violin/Trombone/Viper/Trombone
Specializing on strings and horns, Finch has
played from Lincoln Center to the Castro Theatre
in San Francisco beside artists as
diverse as Alan Cumming, Amanda Palmer, Tony
Bennett, Justin Bond and Dee Snider. In January
he played for a bevy of stars in the American
Songbook series at Jazz at Lincoln Center featuring
the music of Lance Horne. He recently returned
from London where he made his West End debut
as an actor/musician in the show Woody Sez. He
also appeared in this original production about
Woody Guthrie in its American premiere in
Oklahoma City and in its month-long run at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2009. Last fall David
Finch played in A.R.T.’s production of Cabaret.
He was a cast member of the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Cabaret at the infamous
Studio 54, and toured with the show in the
United States, Canada and Japan. His offBroadway credits include Fame on 42nd St. and
the New York premiere of Tennessee Williams’s
sixty-year-old play Spring Storm. He spent several
years touring Europe, the U.S. and Canada with
Fame the Musical and has performed regionally in
Hank Williams’ Lost Highway, Grapes of Wrath,
1940s Radio Hour, Fiddler on the Roof, Buddy: The
Buddy Holly Story and Cotton Patch Gospel. David
Finch is proud to have been an Associate
Producer at Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS
in NYC from 2004–2006 where he met his wife
Rachel. They live in Brooklyn.
JEFF MUZEROLLE
Drums/Percussion/Synth
Jeff Muzerolle began his journey behind the
drums at the tender age of 5 years old and
played his first professional gig at the age of 10.
After spending his teens gigging around the
Northeast he won a scholarship to Berklee
College of Music. Muzerolle studied there
under the tutelage of drummers such as
Kenwood Dennard, Jon Hazilla, Jon Ramsey,
Skip Hadden and Larry Finn. Since graduating
Magna Cum Laude in 1999 with a major in
performance, he has been a very active musician in the Boston scene as well as performing
for national and international tours. His performances span multiple genres with many
artists including Eddie Kirkland, David
Minehan, Anthony Vitti, Makoto Takenaka,
Tomo Fujita, Rick Berlin, Tom Appleman, Joe
Musella, James Merenda, Dennis Brennan and
many others. In May of 2009, he wrote and
published an internet course entitled The
Gigging Drummer that helps drummers worldwide learn how to establish and maintain their
careers in the music industry. In addition to his
performance career, Muzerolle gives private and
group instruction at his studio in Winchester,
Mass. He also runs his own publishing company Grooving Media and works as an engineer/producer in several recording studios
throughout the greater Boston area. For more
info check out his website: www.jeffmusic.com
ROBB SIMRING
Bass Guitars
Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Robb
Simring began his musical studies at age 5 on
piano. Fifteen years later, he picked up a bass,
and hasn’t looked back since. His diverse experience includes original bands (including
Atlantic Records recording artists Angry Salad),
session work for jingles/soundtracks/original
artist releases, local and regional musical theater pit orchestras and national/international
tours. He has performed at Symphony Hall, the
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Boston Garden and Fenway Park, on national
TV with the Boston Pops and on international
TV (Univision’s “Don Francisco Presenta”). He
has also performed off-Broadway with Blue
Man Group, and is currently the full-time
bassist in their Boston production.
ALLEGRA LIBONATI
Associate Director
Allegra Libonati is the Artistic Associate at the
American Repertory Theater, Resident Director
of The Donkey Show and initiator of the A.R.T.
Instigators. She has assistant directed for Diane
Paulus: The Donkey Show, Best Of Both Worlds,
Death And The Powers: The Robots’ Opera and
the Tony Award-winning revival of HAIR. At
Harvard University she curates The Chairs
Revue, a festival of theater in Harvard Yard. For
OBERON she directed/wrote Once In Hell—a tencourse dinner through Dante’s Inferno. She directs outdoor Shakespeare at the Summer
Theater of New Canaan, including Twelfth Night,
Taming of the Shrew and H4, an original adaptation of Henry IV (parts 1 and 2). Other directing
credits include The Island, Romeo and Juliet, Life’s
a Dream, The Just Assassins, Accidental Death of
an Anarchist and The Illusion. She holds an
M.F.A. in directing from Carnegie Mellon
University, she studied Commedia Dell’Arte at
the Accademia Dell’Arte and is a graduate of
NYU, Tisch School of the Arts.
MIA WALKER
Assistant Director
Mia Walker holds a B.A. in Film
Production/Studies, Magna Cum Laude, from
Harvard University. Walker has trained at The
Berkshire Theatre Festival, American
Conservatory Theater, NYU Tisch and Vassar
Powerhouse. This year, she is one of four
Resident Directors at The Flea Theater, where she
directed the world premiere of Trista Baldwin’s
American Sexy. Assisting experience includes:
Johnny Baseball (American Repertory Theater,
dir. Diane Paulus) and Paul Simon’s The Capeman
(The Public Theater, dir. Diane Paulus). Love and
thanks to her wonderful family and to Diane.
KATHERINE SHEA
Stage Manager
A.R.T.: Stage Manager: The Blue Flower;
Cabaret; Johnny Baseball; Paradise Lost;
Best of Both Worlds; Romance; Endgame;
The Communist Dracula Pageant; When It’s
Hot, It’s Cole; Donnie Darko. Assistant Stage
Manager: The Seagull; Oliver Twist; The
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Onion Cellar. Production Associate: Island of
Slaves; Desire Under the Elms. A.R.T.
Institute: Stage Manager: The Front Page;
Arabian Night; Zoya; Mayhem; A Bright Room
Called Day; The Island of Anyplace; The Bacchae;
Spring Awakening; Donnie Darko. Gloucester
Stage Company: Production Stage Manager:
The Woman in Black. Lyric Stage Company:
Production Stage Manager: Kiss Me, Kate; Three
Tall Women; Adrift in Macao. Actors’
Shakespeare Project: Stage Manager: King John.
SAMUEL “SAM” NAPPI
Producer
Sam Nappi founded World Harmony
Productions/Harmony Pictures with the goal of
developing socially conscious films, Broadway
shows and music. He is currently producing The
Gift of the Magi in Los Angeles with lyrics by
Steven Sater and music by Burt Bacharach, and a
Broadway musical about Woodstock. Through his
Harmony Pictures division, Nappi is a producer
with DreamWorks of the Martin Luther King, Jr.
biopic to be directed by Steven Spielberg. Nappi is
a director on the board of the King Center in
Atlanta, as well as the MLK National Memorial
Foundation in Washington, D.C. He is co-authoring two soon-to-be-released books with Rev.
Bernice King, and also serves on the board of
Realizing the Dream, which was created by Martin
Luther King III to champion freedom, justice, and
equality through the elimination of poverty. He
wishes to thank Carol, Justin and Leah.
Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of
Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents
more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United
States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre
as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and
working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health
and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated
with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The
Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org
The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in
LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic
Artists Local USA-829 IATSE.
A.R.T. Musicians are members of the Boston Musicians'
Association, Local 9-535 which has protected the interests
of musicians and promoted the art of live music since 1896.
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About the A.R.T.
Diane Paulus, Artistic Director
The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) is one of the country’s most celebrated resident theaters and the winner of numerous awards—including the Tony Award, the Pulitzer Prize and
regional Elliot Norton and I.R.N.E. Awards. In 2002 the A.R.T. was the recipient of the
National Theatre Conference’s Outstanding Achievement Award, and in May of 2003 it was
named one of the top three regional theaters in the country by Time magazine.
Founded by Robert Brustein in 1980, the A.R.T. during its 30-year history has welcomed
many major American and international theater artists, presenting a diverse repertoire that
includes new American plays, bold reinterpretations of classical texts and provocative new
music theater productions. The A.R.T. has performed throughout the U.S. and worldwide in
21 cities in 16 countries on four continents. It has presented more than 200 productions, over
half of which were premieres of new plays, translations and adaptations.
The A.R.T. is also a training ground for young artists. The Theater’s artistic staff teaches undergraduate classes in acting, directing, dramatic literature, dramaturgy, design and playwriting
at Harvard University, and in 1987 the A.R.T. founded the Institute for Advanced Theater
Training at Harvard University in conjunction with the Moscow Art Theater School. The
Institute provides world-class graduate level training in acting, dramaturgy and voice.
In 2009, the A.R.T. welcomed its new Artistic Director, Diane Paulus. Armed with the A.R.T.’s
mission to expand the boundaries of theater, Paulus and her team have engaged thousands of
new theatergoers at performances of Sleep No More, The Donkey Show, Gatz, Best of Both
Worlds, Johnny Baseball and Cabaret as well as festivals like Emerging America. Critics and
audiences have embraced the immersive environments that have become hallmarks of A.R.T.
productions. The Theater has broadened its focus to include the audience’s total experience,
providing them with a sense of ownership in the theatrical event. The A.R.T.’s new club theater
OBERON, which Paulus calls a “second stage for the 21st century,” is an example of one initiative that has not only become an incubator for local artists but also has attracted national attention as a groundbreaking model for programming. Through all of its work, the A.R.T. is
committed to building a community of artists, technicians, educators, staff and audience, all of
whom are integral to the A.R.T.’s core mission of expanding the boundaries of theater.
A.R.T. 2010/11 Board of Trustees
A.R.T. 2010/11 Board of Advisors
Donald Ware, Chairman
Kathleen Connor, Co-Chair
Barbara Wallace Grossman, Co-Chair
Philip Burling
Paul Buttenwieser
Kevin Costin
Michael Feinstein
Lori Gross
Ann Gund
Sarah Hancock
Provost Steven Hyman
Fumi Matsumoto
Rebecca Milikowsky
Ward Mooney
Diane Paulus
James Rhee
Diana Sorensen
Lisbeth Tarlow
Joseph Auerbach*
Page Bingham
Greg Carr
Antonia Handler Chayes*
Clarke Coggeshall
Susan Cohen
Susan Edgman-Levitan
Erin Gilligan
Rachael Goldfarb
Joseph W. Hammer
Horace H. Irvine, II
*Emeriti
Founding Director
Robert Brustein
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Glenn KnicKrehm
Dan Mathieu
Natalie Reed
Ellen Gordon Reeves
Linda U. Sanger
Maggie Seelig
John A. Shane
Michael Shinagel
Sam Weisman
Alfred Wojciechowski
Yuriko Jane Young
Institute
A.R.T./MXAT Institute For Advanced Theater Training
Scott Zigler, Director Julia Smeliansky, Administrative Director
Marcus Stern, Associate Director
Nancy Houfek, Head of Voice and Speech Andrei Droznin, Head of Movement
Anatoly Smeliansky, Co-Head Dramaturgy Ryan McKittrick, Co-Head Dramaturgy
American Repertory Theater
Diane Paulus, Artistic Director/CEO
Moscow Art Theater School
Anatoly Smeliansky, Head
The Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard was established in 1987 by the
American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) as a training ground for the professional American theater. Its
programs are fully integrated with the activities of the A.R.T. In the summer of 1998, the Institute
commenced a historic joint program with the Moscow Art Theater (MXAT) School. Students engage with two invaluable resources: the work of the A.R.T. and that of the MXAT, as well as their affiliated schools. Together, this exclusive partnership offers students opportunities for training and
growth unmatched by any program in the country.
The core program features a rigorous two-year, five-semester period of training in acting,
dramaturgy, or voice pedagogy, during which students work closely with the professionals at
the A.R.T. and the MXAT as well as with the best master teachers from the United States and
Russia. At the end of the program, students receive a Certificate of Achievement from the faculty of the American Repertory Theater and an M.F.A. Degree from the faculty of the Moscow
Art Theater School.
Further information about this new program can be obtained by calling the Institute for a free
catalog at (617) 496-2000 or going to our web site at www.americanrepertorytheater.org.
Faculty
Staff
Robert Brustein
Criticism and Dramaturgy
Erin Cooney
Yoga
Thomas Derrah
Acting
Andrey Droznin
Movement
Tatyana Gassel
Russian Language and Culture
Jeremy Geidt
Acting
Janice Giampa
Singing
David Hammond
Acting, Shakespeare
Arthur Holmberg
Theater History, Dramaturgy
Nancy Houfek
Voice and Speech
Robert Lada
Alexander Technique
Jodi Leigh Allen
Movement, Movement
Coordinator
Ryan McKittrick
Dramaturgy, Dramatic Literature
Pamela Murray
Singing
Robert Narajan
Combat
Diane Paulus
Theater Practice
Robert Scanlan
Dramatic Literature
Andrey Shchukin
Movement
Anatoly Smeliansky
Theater History, Dramaturgy
Julia Smeliansky
History of Set Design, Translation
Marcus Stern
Acting
Jim True-Frost
Acting for the Camera
Tommy Thompson
Alexander Technique
Catherine Ulissey
Ballet
Robert Walsh
Stage Combat
Sam Weisman
Director of Professional
Development
Scott Zigler
Acting, Dramaturgy
Angela DeVivo
Chelsea Keating
Christopher Viklund
Skip Curtiss
Financial Aid
Institute Associate
Production Manager
Technical Director
Acting
Milia Ayache
Renee-Marie Brewster
Megan Brotherton
M. Zach Bubolo
Matthew Christian
Nick Crandall
Liza Dickinson
Jared Eaton
Annika Franklin
Teri Gamble
Steven Good
Alison Gregory
Christian Grunnah
Dustyn Gulledge
Angela Gulner
Rose Hogan
Faith Imafidon
Sarah Jadin
Carl James
Michael Kane
Luke Lehner
Derek Lettman
Lindsey Liberatore
Jordan Lievers
Lisa Maley
Mark Parrish
Scott Ray
Vincent Selhorst-Jones
Lanise Shelley
Jennifer Soo
Christopher Staley
Ed Walsh
Erikka Walsh
Roland Walsh
Luke Woodruff
Alexandra Wright
Dramaturgy
Sara Bookin-Weiner
Annie DiMario
Jenna Embrey
Christina Farris
Laura Henry
Rachel Hutt
Tyler Monroe
Joe Pindelski
Voice
Sarah Jessop
Special Studies
Barbara Wallace Grossman
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Donors
The American Repertory Theater is deeply grateful for the generous support by individuals,
foundations, corporations and government agencies whose contributions to our Annual Fund
and our annual Fund-a-Need make our work possible. The list below reflects gifts and pledges
between January 1, 2010 and February 4, 2011.
$100,000 and above
Anonymous
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
The President and Fellows of Harvard College
Massachusetts Cultural Council Facilities Fund
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Shubert Foundation, Inc.
$50,000–$99,999
Anonymous
Edgerton Foundation
New American Plays Award
Sarah Hancock
Hershey Family Foundation
Rebecca Gold Milikowsky and
Nathan Milikowsky
National Endowment for the Arts
The Harold and Mimi Steinberg
Charitable Trust
Lisbeth Tarlow and Stephen Kay
Theatre Communications Group
Don and Susan Ware
The E.H.A. Foundation, Inc.
Ann and Graham Gund
Massachusetts Cultural Council
Ward and Lucy Mooney
National Corporate Theatre Fund
Barbara W. Hostetter
Horace Irvine
Heni Koenigsberg
Lizbeth and George Krupp
Fumi and Kako Matsumoto
Dan Mathieu/Neal Balkowitsch/
MAX Ultimate Food*
Cokie and Lee Perry
Shiseido Cosmetics
Lawrence & Lillian Solomon Fund,
Inc.
Trust for Mutual Understanding
Yuriko Jane Young
Joseph W. Hammer
Michael and Wanda Jacobson
Steve and Rosemarie Johnson
Nancy P. King
Glenn A. KnicKrehm
Bob and Alison Murchison
Bessie Pappas Charitable
Foundation
Diane Paulus
Irving Plotkin
Beth Pollock
Valerie Beth Schwartz Foundation
Swissnex Boston
Ted and Mary Wendell
Nicholas Greville
Lori E. Gross
Gardner Hendrie and
Karen Johansen
The Roy A. Hunt Foundation
Lars Foundation
Liberty Mutual,
Give with Liberty Program
John D. C. Little
Nick and Jennifer Littlefield
Gregory Maguire
Barbara Manocherian
James and Marie Marlas
Dan Mathieu
Paul and Wladzia McCarthy
Diane Paulus
Raymond Pelletier
The Penfield Family Charitable
Trust
Finley and Patricia Perry
Carol and Steve Pieper
Lawrence Pratt
Andres Rodriguez
Patricia Romeo-Gilbert and
Paul B. Gilbert
Paul and Ann Sagan
$25,000–$49,999
Boston Metro*
Philip and Hilary Burling
Paul and Katie Buttenwieser
$10,000–$24,999
Anonymous
Cambridge Trust Company
The Carr Foundation
Ted and Joan+ Cutler
Michael Feinstein and Denise
Waldron
Google, Inc.*
$5,000–$9,999
Anonymous
Joel and Lisa Alvord
Page Bingham and Jim Anathan
British Council Cultural
Department
Chung Family Foundation
Clarke and Ethel D. Coggeshall
Susan and Gerald Cohen
Rachael Goldfarb
$1,000–$4,999
Anonymous
Anonymous
Elizabeth Adams
Francis Adams
Sheldon Appel
Linda Cabot Black
Stephen Coit
Robert E. Davoli and Eileen
McDonagh Didriks*
John DiMaggio and
Michelle Oliver
Stephanie Dominus
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
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$1,000–$4,999 (continued)
The Schneer Foundation
The Shane Foundation
Michael Shinagel and
Marjorie North
Sholley Foundation, Inc.
Mark Slovenkai
Clive Standley
Deborah Sweet and Steven Lazar
John Travis
Wagamama, Inc.*
Francis H. Williams
Zipcar*
Sue and Don Guiney
Dena and Felda Hardymon
Gretjen Helene Photography*
Arthur and Susan Holcombe
CC King and Tom Tarpey
Lawrence Kotin
Mary Pfeifer Lentz and Tom Lentz
Barbara Manocherian
Mark Natale
NSTAR Foundation
Jeryl and Stephen Oristaglio
Anthony Pangaro
Vincent Piccirilli and
Anita Meiklejohn
Suzanne Priebatsch
Sally C. Reid and John D. Sigel
Wendy Shattuck and
Sam Plimpton
Mason and Jeannie Smith
Michele Steckler
Caroline Taggart and Robert Sachs
May K. Takayanagi
Mindee Wasserman, Esq.
Bill and Ruth Weinstein
John Weltman
Ms. Kelsey Wirth and
Dr. Samuel Myers
Jim Gray
Homer Hagedorn
Cynthia Harney and Rene Becker
Alison Hodges
Hurlbut Family Charitable Lead
Trust
Dr. Joseph Kahan
Dr. and Mrs. Jerome P. Kassirer
Tosh Kawakami
Michael Kiernan
Susan Kohn
Deborah and Jonathan Kolb
Charles Kravetz and
Deborah Sinay
Jeanne and Allen Krieger
Bill and Lisa Laskin
Greg and Mary Beth Lesher
Barbara A. Manzolillo
Anna Marcotte
Patricia Cleary Miller Ph.D.
Evangeline Morphos
Roderick and Joan Nordell
Dr. John O’Neal
Stephen Quatrano
Belinda Schapiro
Ellen Simons
Karen Snyder Photography*
Diana Sorensen
The Spencer Foundation
Anne Stetson
Wendell Sykes
Arnold Tofias
Jeremy Scott Wood
Kirkham Wood
William Zinn and Nancy Bridges
$500–$999
Howard and Leslie Appleby
William M. Bazzy
Leonard and Jane Bernstein
Alan Brinkley and Evangeline
Morphos
Sheldon and Dorothea Buckler
Dina Catani and Edward Gray
Caroline Chang
Antonia H. Chayes
Mr. Bernard Chiu
Event Illuminations
Stona and Ana Fitch
Barbara Wallace Grossman and
Steve Grossman
$250–$499
Anonymous
Sharon Adams
Virgil Aiello
Sue Beebee and Joe Gagné
Helene B. Black Charitable
Foundation
Diane Borger
Ronnie Bretholtz
Susan Dangel
Erica DeRosa
William Emery
Barbara Estrin
Finale*
Charles Flowers
Howard Gardner
Robert and Kathleen Garner
Erin Gilligan and Hoil Kim
Mark Glasser
Marie and Daniel Glenn
Prof. Byron Good and
Prof. Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
* denotes gift-in-kind
+ deceased
2011 Benefit Party Table Sponsors
Philip and Hilary Burling
Katie and Paul Buttenwieser
Kevin Costin
Crystal Financial LLC
Michael Feinstein and
Denise Waldron
Rachael Goldfarb
Sarah Hancock
Harvard University Provost’s
Office
Loro Piana
Fumi and Kako Matsumoto
MAX Ultimate Food
Rebecca and Nathan Milikowsky
Diane Paulus and Randy Weiner
Beth Pollock and Sheldon Appel
James Rado
Pat Romeo-Gilbert and
Paul Gilbert
Maura and Bob Scalise
Lisbeth Tarlow and Stephen Kay
Don and Susan Ware
Yuriko Jane Young
Anonymous
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Corporate Partners
The A.R.T. would like to thank the following Corporate Partners for their support. Corporate
partners provide invaluable in-kind and monetary support for the programs of the A.R.T.
48HourPrint.com
Bear Flag Wines
Boston Beer Company
Cafe of India
Cambridge, 1.
Cambridge Trust Company
The Charles Hotel
Chez Henri
Darwin’s
Finale
Google Inc.
Grafton Street
Grendel’s Den
Harvard Coop
Henrietta’s Table
La Morra
Legal Sea Foods
MAC Cosmetics
MAX Ultimate Food
METRO
Newbury Comics
Noir
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Polar Beverages
Rialto
Russell House
Sandrine’s
Shiseido
Swissnex Boston
TheatricalProjections.com
Tory Row
UpStairs on the Square
Wagamama Inc.
The Weekly Dig
Zipcar
National Corporate Theatre Fund
National Corporate Theatre Fund is a not-for-profit corporation created to increase and strengthen
support from the business community for ten of this country's most distinguished professional
theatres. The following foundations, individuals and corporations support these theaters through
their contributions of $5,000 or more to National Corporate Theatre Fund:
Mitchell J. Auslander
Bank of America †
Bloomberg
BNY Mellon Wealth Management
Steven M. Bunson
Christopher Campbell/Palace
Production Center †
Cisco Systems, Inc. †
Citigroup °
Davenport Theatricals
Dorsey & Whitney Foundation
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. †
John Dutt
Ernst & Young
Bruce R. Ewing
Richard Fitzburgh
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Gregory S. Hurst
Ron Lefferts
Marsh & McLennan Companies
McCarter & English LLP †
The McGraw-Hill Companies«
MetLife Foundation
John G. Miller
Morgan Stanley
NBC/Saturday Night Live
New York State Council
on the Arts **
Jack O'Brien
Ogilvy & Mather *
Edson Peres
Pfizer, Inc.
Leslie Powell
Thomas C. Quick
RBC Wealth Management
Barbara W. Rollhaus
RVM/Vincent Brunetti
Samuel French, Inc. †*
Marian Seldes
Sharp Electronics *
Gretchen Shugart
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &
Flom LLC†
George S. Smith, Jr.
Theatermania.com/
Gretchen Shugart
John Thomopolous
Evelyn Truitt
James S. Turley
UBS
USA Today *
Vernaus Systems
Michael Wall
Wells Fargo
Bruce E. Whitacre
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP †
Isabelle Winkles
† NCTF/John Breglio Fund for New
American Theatre
° NCTF Fund for Theatre Education
* Includes in-kind support
** Save My Seat Off-Broadway
The A.R.T. wishes to thank its institutional partners,
whose support helps to make the theater’s programs possible:
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Staff
AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER STAFF
ARTISTIC
Artistic Director/CEO.......................................Diane Paulus
Producer ...........................................................Diane Borger
Artistic Coordinator .................................Chris De Camillis
Director of Special Projects ........................Ariane Barbanell
Dramaturg...................................................Ryan McKittrick
Special Assistant to the
Artistic Director/CEO...................................Lauren Antler
Artistic Associate .........................................Allegra Libonati
Producing Fellow ........................................Kathryn Kozlark
Artistic/Dramaturgy Fellow ............................Brendan Shea
Artistic Interns......................Charlotte Alter, Emily Hyman
Dramaturgy Intern............................................Grace Geller
INSTITUTE
Director ...............................................................Scott Zigler
Administrative Director..............................Julia Smelianksy
Associate Director ............................................Marcus Stern
Co-head of Dramaturgy ........................Anatoly Smeliansky
Co-head of Dramaturgy..............................Ryan McKittrick
Resident Literary Advisor ..........................Arthur Holmberg
Head of Voice and Speech .............................Nancy Houfek
Administrative Associate.............................Chelsea Keating
Financial Aid Director...................................Angela DeVivo
Production Manager............................Christopher Viklund
EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
DEVELOPMENT
Director of Development ....................................Ellen Kulik
Interim Development Officer .........................Brendan Shea
MARKETING
Director of Marketing
and Communications ................................Anna Fitzloff
Marketing Manager...............................................Jared Fine
Director of Press
and Public Relations .................................Katalin Mitchell
Communications Manager .....................Amanda Gutowski
Design Associate ...................................................Joel Zayac
Advertising Consultant.......................................Blitz Media
Marketing Intern...............................................Emily Hecht
FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION
Director of Finance
and Administration .......................................Tiffani Gavin
Interim Comptroller ......................................Ann Kellegher
Assistant General Manager................................Steven Leon
Assistant Comptroller ...................................Angela DeVivo
Financial Administrator ....................................Stacie Hurst
Theater Facilities Manager.................................Tracy Keene
Company/Front of House Associate ............Rachel Cardillo
Receptionists ............................Sarah Leon, Maria Medeiros
House Managers .........Kevin Cloud, Gretjen Hargesheimer,
Michael Haviland, Heather Quick,
Eleanor Regan, Matthew Spano, Matt Wood
Volunteer Usher Coordinator .................Barbara Lindstrom
BOX OFFICE
Head of Patron Systems .................................Derek Mueller
Box Office Manager ...........................................Ryan Walsh
Box Office Management Associate ...................Alicia Curtis
Box Office Representative ...............................Karen Snyder
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PRODUCTION
Production Manager...................................Patricia Quinlan
Associate Production
Managers .....................Christopher Viklund, Skip Curtiss
Loeb Technical Director ............................J. Michael Griggs
COSTUMES
Costume Shop Manager ...........................Jeannette Hawley
Assistant Costume Shop Manager ..................Mary R. Hurd
Crafts Artisan ......................................David Israel Reynoso
Costume Shopper ........................................Caitlin Menotti
Wardrobe Supervisor ...................................Stephen Drueke
Costume/Props Stock Manager.....................Suzanne Kadiff
LIGHTS
Master Electrician ..........................................Derek L. Wiles
Lighting Assistant .........................................Kirsten Opstad
Light Board Operator ................................Matthew Houstle
PROPERTIES
Properties Manager ............................ Cynthia Lee-Sullivan
Assistant Properties Manager ............................Tricia Green
Properties Carpenter............................Stacey Horne-Harper
Properties Intern..................................Samantha Provilonis
SCENERY
Technical Director ....................................Stephen Setterlun
Assistant Technical Directors.............................Nick Fouch,
Chris Swetcky
Scene Shop Supervisor....................................David Buckler
Scenic Charge Artist..............................................Jerry Vogt
Master Carpenter...........................................Peter Doucette
Scenic Carpenters ............York-Andreas Paris, Jason Bryant,
Kristin Knutson
Carpentry Interns .....................Nathaniel Drake, Jon Seilor
Paint Intern .....................................................Laura Muñoz
SOUND
Resident Sound Designer/Engineer ..............Clive Goodwin
Production Sound Engineer.......................Katrina McGuire
STAGE
Stage Supervisor .............................................Jeremie Lozier
Assistant Stage Supervisor ............Christopher Eschenbach
Production Assistants ..........Kevin Klein, Matthew Sebastian
STAGE MANAGEMENT
Production Stage Manager .......................Chris De Camillis
Stage Manager ..............................................Katherine Shea
OBERON
Producer .........................................................Randy Weiner
Associate Producer .....................................Ariane Barbanell
Production Manager ..........................................Skip Curtiss
Venue Manager....................................................Erin Wood
Programming Associate ...................................James Wetzel
House Technician...........................................Garrett Herzig
FOR PROMETHEUS BOUND
Costume Design Assistant .....................................Lisa Loen
Stitchers ...........Jennifer Nieling, Lilli Rhiger, Michelle Ross
Costume Crafts.....................................................Eric Propp
Costumes Intern .........................................Maria Campbell
Properties Additional Staff .......................Rebecca Helgeson
Follow Spots...............Jennifer Bertha, Jennifer Aqua Laney
Sound Board Operator.....................................Brian Walters
Wardrobe..........................Emily Damron, Robin Rittenourf
Carpenters .................................Dan Black, Leigh Doughty,
Rena Luczkiewicz, Garrett McEntee,
Ben St. Louis, Deborah Zometa
Scenic Painter ...............................................Heather Morris
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General Information
THE DONKEY SHOW
See it every Saturday night!
At OBERON
Party to the ’70s hits you know by heart as this
disco adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
unfolds around you as a nightclub fantasy. Special
group rates available for bachelorettes, birthdays
and parties! Email vip@amrep.org for more info.
WHAT IS OBERON?
• The A.R.T.’s second stage for the 21st century
• A Harvard Square hotspot, located at the
corner of Arrow St. and Mass Ave.
• An incubator for the creation of new
works
• A haven for local artists, more than 100
of whom have performed at OBERON
since its inception
Learn more at cluboberon.com
DEATH AND THE POWERS:
THE ROBOTS’ OPERA
March 18, 20, 22, and 25
At The Cutler Majestic
By Tod Machover | Libretto by Robert Pinsky
Story by Robert Pinsky and Randy Weiner
Directed by Diane Paulus | Conducted by Gil Rose
The groundbreaking new production developed at the MIT Media Lab distinctively
blends technological and artistic finesse to
create a score that is passionately inventive,
melodically rich, and emotionally charged.
ONCE
An A.R.T. First Look—April 22–29
At OBERON
A musical stage adaptation of the 2007
Academy Award-winning film Once.
STORIES BY HEART
May 2
At the Loeb Drama Center
Armed with only an armchair and some
yellowed pages, Tony Award winner John
Lithgow tells you not the story of his life,
but the STORIES of his life.
MOUTH WIDE OPEN
An A.R.T. First Look—May 24–29
At the Loeb Drama Center
Soulful, transcendent, laugh-out-loud funny,
Amy Brenneman (“Private Practice,” “Judging
Amy”) returns to her roots in an exuberant
theater piece.
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Evenings
7:30 p.m.
Saturday/Sunday matinees
2:00 p.m.
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Performance Days Noon–Curtain
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Monday
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A Journey through hollywood, hospitals and holy hotspots
Soulful, transcendent, laugh-out-loud funny,
Amy Brenneman (Private Practice, Judging Amy)
returns to her roots in an exuberant theater piece.
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HOUSE OF YES, Counter-Productions Theatre Company, Factory
Theatre, The Piano Factory, 791 Tremont St., 866-811-4111.Mar
3–20. As a hurricane approaches, Marty brings his fiancee, Lesly,
home to his family’s Washington, D.C. estate to meet his unstable,
Jacqueline Kennedy-obsessed sister and overprotective mother
and brother. As the storm rages outside, shocking family secrets
are unleashed in Wendy MacLeod’s searing drama.
THE LAST FIVE YEARS, New Repertory Theatre, Black Box
Theater, Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St., Watertown,
617-923-8487. Mar 27–Apr 17. In this award-winning musical
by Jason Robert Brown, audiences are taken on an intimate
journey witnessing both the birth and unraveling of a young
couple’s five-year relationship. Join Cathy and Jamie as they
share their emotional stories through celebrated songs like “Still
Hurting,” “The Next Ten Minutes” and “Shiksa Goddess.”
LIVING IN EXILE, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, The Storefront
on Elm, 255 Elm St., Davis Square, Somerville, 866-811-4111.
Mar 9–20. This stunning retelling of the Iliad by local playwright Jon Lipsky draws parallels between the years spent by
Greek soldiers on the beachheads of Asia Minor and the years
spent by American soldiers on the beachheads of Vietnam, in
the mountains of Afghanistan and in the desert of Iraq.
MY NAME IS ASHER LEV, Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon
St., 617-585-5678. Feb 11–Mar 12. This stage adaptation of the
Chaim Potok novel follows the journey of a controversial young
Jewish painter whose artistic gift threatens to estrange him from
his sheltered Hassidic community in postwar Brooklyn and the
parents he loves. While his mother is caught between her son and
her husband, Asher must choose between his art and his faith.
MY WONDERFUL DAY, Zeitgeist Stage Company, Plaza Theatre,
Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Mar
4–26. Winnie, off from school for the day, sits unnoticed in a corner while her pregnant housekeeper mother busies herself cleaning the house of her minor television celebrity employer. When
her mother’s water breaks and Winnie is left in the house alone
with the celebrity, his mistress, his wife and his best friend, she
finds a wealth of source material for a shocking school essay.
book and lyrics by Stew
music by Stew and Heidi Rodewald
created in collaboration with Annie Dorsen
directed by Kate Warner
music direction by Todd C. Gordon
featuring Cheo Bourne and Cliﬀ Odle
May 1 - May 22, 2011
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Winter Festival
ONE TOUCH OF VENUS, The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31
Hemenway St., 617-912–9222. Mar 3–6. In this musical by
Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash, a window dresser in a department
store feels a strange attraction to a statue in the display. One
night, he impulsively kisses her and she comes to life, revealing herself to be Venus, the goddess of love.
C YMBELIN E
REASONS TO BE PRETTY, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Roberts
Studio Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for
the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Mar 4–Apr 2. This
incendiary drama from Neil LaBute (Fat Pig, The Shape of
Things ) asks, “How much is ‘pretty’ worth?” Sparked by one
man’s offhand remark about his girlfriend’s appearance, the
play navigates the crumbling relationships of four young
friends as they come to terms with their unfulfilling lives and
question the American obsession with physical beauty.
T H E HOTEL N EPEN T H E
TI-JEAN & HIS BROTHERS, Underground Railway Theater and Boston
Playwrights’ Theatre, Central Square Theater, 450 Massachusetts Ave.,
Cambridge, 866-811-4111. Feb 10–Mar 13. Derek Walcott’s powerful folk parable—a celebration of Haitian art, music and spirit—
portrays a Caribbean family in crisis: three brothers are pulled into a
dangerous game with the Devil in a fanciful, dark and ultimately
hopeful story of battling despair through fierce humor and love.
March 9 – 20
February 9 – 20
by William Shakespeare
directed by Doug Lockwood
February 23 – March 6
by John Kuntz
directed by David R. Gammons
LIVING IN EX ILE
by Jon Lipsky
directed by Allyn Burrows
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